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We aim to partner with our clients and build long term, trusted relationships. We invest time to develop a comprehensive understanding of our clients’ businesses, which we believe is critical to unlocking overlooked value. And our remuneration can be structured to align with our clients’ long-term success.
We are independent, robust thinkers and look to go beyond conventional approaches – including advising clients when we think they should not pursue a potential opportunity due to, for example, unattractive economics or too much risk. Our senior team is actively involved in each client engagement, bringing a holistic perspective by leveraging our combined expertise. Our deep experience encompasses corporate and strategic advisory, performance improvement, capital raising, early-stage investing, IPOs, acquisitions and divestments, debt advisory and capital structure solutions.
We combine our core values of integrity, respect and a long-term focus with independence of thought, dedication, and tenacity to achieve outstanding client outcomes. Reflecting our values, we contribute a percentage of net income to not-for-profit organisations.
Entrepreneurial founders and teams typically combine deep industry-specific expertise, passion and drive, and a desire to make a difference as they build their businesses. But they don’t always have all the skills and experience required to achieve their business’ full potential. We can help to fill the gaps.
We will prepare compelling funding pitch documents and open doors to help our clients raise funds and provide strategic advice where required. We can also help management with developing growth plans and alliances, and building the team and resources required to succeed. And we can provide hands-on assistance with crucial practical tasks that may not be the entrepreneurial team’s forte, such as investor communications, financial controls and negotiating complex agreements.
Sometimes you will want a reliable adviser to lean on for support and guidance, particularly in challenging times. We aim to be your trusted partner, providing the experience and expertise to help you navigate the road to success.
When supporting start-up and growth stage clients, we prefer to align our fees to the long-term success of our client’s business, either deferring our fees until the business has proven successful, or, preferably, taking an equity interest in the business instead of cash fees.
We advise on the key questions that any business should be addressing from time to time. Our analysis will consider a broad range of relevant opportunities and actions including revisions to company strategy, operational improvements, alliances, acquisitions or divestments. Our advice will be data-driven, well considered, pragmatic and executable.
We are not transaction oriented. Instead, we aim to build enduring relationships with our clients by providing advice that maximises their long-term success. This means our advice will be honest and robust, sometimes be provocative, and always trustworthy.
Balance sheet issues are often challenging and sometimes confronting, and debt and equity markets are ever-changing. There can be a multitude of parties involved, some with conflicting interests, and time is usually of critical importance.
We can be relied upon to take the pressure off the executive team, manage the complex process, and look after our client’s best interests. We will assess the business’ capital structure in the context of its operational performance and advise on and assist in negotiating debt and equity solutions that will endure and are on the best available terms.
We do not provide or underwrite debt or equity, so we are independent and conflict-free.
When you have decided to make an acquisition or a divestment, we can provide expert advice and execution support. We assess each situation carefully and devise a transaction execution strategy designed to achieve the best outcome for you. We also ensure that your business is properly prepared in advance: a well-designed and well-run sale process can make a significant positive difference to the outcome.
Our senior team has worked on over a hundred transactions in Australia and overseas with a combined deal value in excess of $10 billion. We have extensive experience in advising on and executing mergers, acquisitions and divestments for large and mid-market listed companies and for privately-owned businesses. We have also provided independent advice on numerous IPOs. We bring the skills, expertise, tenacity and commercial acumen to deliver the best possible transaction outcomes for our clients.
Newton Advisory Partners is the trading name of Newton Advisory Partners Pty Ltd (ACN 637 774 335) which holds an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL 536603).
Amrit has over 20 years’ experience in corporate finance and advisory. He started his career with the merchant bank Samuel Montagu (later HSBC) in London and then joined Bank of America. Amrit moved to Sydney to become one of the founding team at O’Sullivan Pullini, later joining 333 Capital.
Amrit’s expertise encompasses strategic advisory; acquisitions and divestments; capital raisings and IPOs; and debt advisory. He has advised on and executed domestic and cross-border transactions across much of the world, including the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia. He has worked with clients including Medibank, Cleanaway, Ovato/PMP, New Zealand Post, Incitec Pivot, Telenor and NTT DoCoMo, as well as many private businesses and several private equity firms including Affinity Equity Partners and KKR. Amrit has experience as an investor in a number of start-up companies.
Amrit has an undergraduate degree in Medical Sciences/Law and a first-class Master of Law degree from the University of Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor in England, and has an MBA from the London Business School. He is Chairman of Cambridge Australia Scholarships, which is the main provider of financial support for young Australians undertaking postgraduate study at Cambridge.
Lindsay has 25 years’ experience covering strategy consulting, investment banking, funds management, entrepreneurship, renewable energy, start-up/growth company investing, and board directorships. He began his career at Optus Communications followed by stints with Macquarie Bank, McKinsey & Company, and several boutique investment management firms (including his own). He has worked in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America.
Lindsay brings a strong mix of strategic, financial, capability building and operational improvement expertise, and enjoys helping companies to accelerate growth and/or turn around struggling performance. He has founded start-ups focused on investment management and project financing and acted as a seed investor in successful businesses in the capital markets software and renewable energy development sectors.
Lindsay holds a B.E. (Hons 1) in Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney, an M.Phil (Distinction) in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from Finsia, and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation. He is a Board Director of Cambridge Australia Scholarships.
Will has over 25 years of financial advisory experience, principally in domestic and cross-border M&A. He worked in London, Jakarta, Sydney and Melbourne for Samuel Montagu/HSBC Investment Banking, the Warrior (metals and mining advisory) division of Standard Bank, and Gresham Advisory Partners, where he was an Executive Director. He was then a Managing Director and Head of Natural Resources M&A at Investec Bank Australia and a Special Advisor at KPMG Australia. Will has worked on public and private market transactions in a broad range of industries including waste, wine, logistics, renewable energy and particularly mining. Previous clients include private companies John Swire and Sons and Davids Asia, mid-market Centennial and large caps Xstrata and China Minmetals.
Will has extensive experience as an early-stage investor, including being a founding shareholder and non-executive director of (and advisor to) Petbarn, which merged with ASX-listed Greencross in 2014. He serves as advisor to the Board of Verona Investment Group, which holds a portfolio of majority interests in growth companies in Australia and Colombia and he is also a principal of JLP International Investments, which pursues consolidation strategies in primary industries in the United States.
Will has a BA (Hons) and an MA in Modern Languages and Theology from the University of Cambridge, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in International Studies from London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Moray has worked in both larger and smaller companies, in a variety of industries that include chemicals, retail, technology and finance. In the early 2000s Moray spent a year founding a website development company before returning to the financial industry as Head of Debt Capital Markets (and member of the Executive Management team) at investment bank, Grange Securities, where he originated over 70 debt securities for a variety of issuers over a six-year period.
Following the acquisition of Grange by US investment bank Lehman Brothers in early 2007, Moray left to set up his own business, Amicus Advisory, which advises conservative middle market investors on their debt investments. Amicus has played a key role in resolving issues relating to structured products purchased prior to the global financial crisis of 2008-9, as well as providing wide-ranging debt advisory services to its clients.
Moray holds an MA and MEng from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the USA. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Responsible Manager on Amicus Advisory’s Australian Financial Services License.
